Scum mum left starved kids in house of horror

The Mum from Hull was jailed for two years for neglecting her children in this house

The children could not remember when their mother last used the cooker or microwave

Mark Kendal

The 33-year-old barmaid refused to bury the animals and police said it was the dirtiest house they had ever seen.

The only fresh food there was a lettuce and a cucumber.

There was an inch of water in one room, filthy carpets and piles of rotting waste. Her two children were aged 10 and 14 and her son said his mum used his older sister as her “child-minding slave”.

The youngsters had no new clothes while she spent her cash on nights out, booze and fashion gear, Hull Crown Court heard.

Mark Kendal, prosecuting, said: “The children could not remember when their mother last used the cooker or microwave.

“One of them told the police he was hungry as all he had to eat at midday was a bacon sandwich bought from a shop.”

Jailing the mother, from Hull, Judge Simon Jack said: “In all the time I have been dealing with cases of this kind I have never seen pictures as bad as this which show the state of neglect in your home.”

The mother also refused to let the children’s dad into the house. The woman had been previously prosecuted at Hull Magistrates’ Court for 11 counts of animal cruelty and was given a 12-month suspended sentence and banned from owning animals for life.

She appeared at Hull Crown Court yesterday for sentence after earlier admitting two charges of child cruelty by neglect.